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Diari d'Anna Frank by Anne Frank

7 reviews

thirdtimesacharm's review against another edition

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dark emotional reflective sad fast-paced

5.0


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venetiana's review against another edition

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I've read the original so many times, and the book is so, so dear to my heart. I physically couldn't bear to listen to it with this narration.

It sounds so much like badly acted contemporary German theatre, it almost felt disrespectful to Anne's thoughtful, vulnerable, honest, sensitive writing.

I sincerely hope you read it before you venture into the German audio book.

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anjh's review against another edition

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3.75

there’s something so eye opening and special but of course also incredibly sad about reading the point of view of a 13 through to 15 year old Jewish girl in hiding during WW2. i admire Otto for making the decision to publish it on behalf of her after her passing in February 1945, especially as Anne talks frequently in her diary about wanting to be a published author some day and wanting to live on past her death - which in a way, she is through her writing 💕

i didn’t give the book 5 stars only because personally i seemed to lose concentration after a while as it is a non fiction historical memoir which i am not used to reading as much. 

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rushh's review against another edition

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challenging tense medium-paced

3.0


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lbelow's review against another edition

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challenging emotional informative reflective sad tense slow-paced

5.0

I wish I had read this book as a teenager. As an adult, I still consider it an essential read, but this is the diary of a teenage girl, with all the moodiness, conflict, and curiosity that entails. Had I read it as a teenager, I feel like it would have resonated with me in a different way. 

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flowerowl's review against another edition

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emotional informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.75

I loved it! Such a unique look into someone's, but especially a young struggling girls (or women's like how she felt it) mind. things and time are so different, yet the emotions and experience are so the same. Things almost every girl growing up feel, but never says or even sometimes dares to think of, she wrote down and expressed so purely and real (not knowing others would read it). It gives room to think all the while reading on the state of self, families, groups, Country's and cultures, without being imposing or philosophical. I would recommend it to anyone, but especially to other girls/women who feel trapped or stuk what ever situation or place.

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maess's review against another edition

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4.75


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